The certification for people who refuse to run another stale meeting. An on-demand spine you finish on your schedule, a live capstone where you actually get certified, and a credential built on 1,200+ real workshops — from Google and Amazon boardrooms to the Department of Defense.
No payment today — reserve holds your place in the founding cohort.
Remote and hybrid work turned "runs a good meeting" from a nice-to-have into a line on the job description. Agile coaches, product leads, L&D teams, and consultants are all being asked to facilitate — and most were never taught how. The market for the credential is real and already priced.
Nine field-tested modules — problem-finding, brainstorming, prioritization, decision-making, the hard room. Finish on your schedule. This is the same content Stale Chips has taught to Fortune 100 and federal teams.
You don't get certified by watching videos. You facilitate a real session, live, and get assessed against a rubric by someone who's run 600+ workshops. Pass it and the credential is yours.
A certification you put on LinkedIn and your résumé, a cohort of peers who do this work, and a facilitator's toolkit you keep. You leave with proof, a network, and a kit.
Most facilitation certs are taught by people who wrote a framework. This one is taught by a team that has been in 1,200+ live rooms — including the highest-stakes ones in the country — and lived to systematize it.
| Program | Price / seat | Format | The edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stale Chips · Get Sharp | $3,500 | On-demand + live capstone | 1,200+ workshops · DoD/NavalX-proven · AI-augmented |
| Voltage Control | $5,000 | 3-month live cohort | Strong brand, no federal reps |
| MG RUSH | $3,850 | 5-day in-person | Only 2 U.S. cohorts left in 2026 |
| Leadership Strategies | $3,200 | 4-day live | The classic, classroom-heavy |
| LUMA Institute | $2,900 | ~3-month live online | Framework-first, "5 seats left" |
| IAF CPF | $2,500 | Assessment, no course | Prestige credential, no teaching |
Prices pulled from each provider's public page. See sources at the foot of the page.
A sample of what people say publicly when they go looking for a facilitation certification. Real posts, lightly trimmed.
The founding cohort is capped so the capstone stays hands-on. Reserving holds your place and locks the founding rate — you decide to enroll once the dates are set.
Tell us where to send the cohort dates. No charge now, no spam — this reserves your place and the founding rate.
Stale Chips, a facilitation and innovation firm that has run 1,200+ workshops over 19 years for teams including IBM, Amazon, Google, Shell, and Walmart, and whose curriculum has been used inside the U.S. Department of Defense. This is their open-enrollment version of training they usually deliver as private six-figure engagements.
A facilitation certification you can put on LinkedIn and your résumé, earned by passing a live, assessed capstone — not just finishing videos. Plus the full course library, a facilitator's toolkit, and a cohort network.
The on-demand spine is self-paced (most finish in a few weeks of evenings). The capstone is a scheduled live session. You move at your speed; the credential is gated on the capstone, not seat-time.
Usually yes — most companies reimburse professional certification and L&D. Reserve a seat and we'll send a one-page justification you can forward to your manager.
Because the teaching is already built and the spine is on-demand, we don't carry a four-day classroom's cost. You pay for the reps and the credential, not the conference-room rental.